It’s clear some Russian troops don’t know how their armor works. Photos that recently circulated online depict Russian Gaz-66 trucks wearing blocks of explosive reactive armor. The armor won’t protect ...

The boxy explosive reactive armor (ERA) bricks around the sides of the hull, known as Bradley Reactive Armor Tiles (BRAT), are but one component of a fully equipped BUSK M2. The ERA, like its Russian ...

Explosive Reactive Armor is a powerful defense system designed to protect tanks from incoming anti-tank weapons. When triggered, it detonates outward to disrupt the threat, but this reaction can be ...

Why does Russian explosive reactive armor (ERA) sometimes fail to explode when a tank is destroyed? In numerous images of destroyed Russian tanks, ERA blocks like Kontakt-1 and Kontakt-5 appear ...

Desperate to replace the scores of tanks it loses every month in its wider war on Ukraine, and equally desperate to give the replacement tanks a fighting chance of surviving their first encounter with ...